Day 1- Neighbors, Knitting, and Explosions

Well I made it! Paraguay, from what little I've seen of it, is a beautiful place to live.  My apartment is really nice, and I have awesome next door neighbors. I will be rooming with one other person, but so far just me and a couple next door have moved it. 

Asuncion at night

Today was nice, the fifty something degree weather is a lovely change from the 97 degrees back in Georgia!  The school compound is beautiful with plenty of grass and trees.

The first day I was here was fairly simple.  I slept late (36 hours of no sleep makes even a strange bed comfy!), then I went and met the people in the office and got to see my classroom. It's a nice little classroom with some tables for the students. I didn't stay long because it was being cleaned. I'm excited to see more of it in the next few days.

My first meal in Paraguay, yep, cornflakes

 After that I went back to my room and took a shower.  I say shower because I was standing in the shower. The filament in my shower head is worn out so it won't heat the water. I washed my hair with the freezing water, but I chickened out and just took a bath with the warm sink water and a pitcher.  It was way too cold to take a freezing cold shower!

After that I put my room together, started knitting a washcloth because I didn't think to bring any and I keep spilling the milk, and got to know my neighbors some.  They are really nice and I really enjoyed talking to Elizabeth, the wife.  Later, when I went to make supper was when I had some excitement in my day.  Elizabeth and I had explored my match-lit gas stove earlier, but when I went to cook I forgot to raise up the glass cover, before I put on the teapot of water to make macaroni in (my kitchen is a little limited as far as dishes go). As I'm standing at the sink washing some dishes there was a massive explosion behind me and all the glass broke into about a billion pieces.  Thankfully, it's tempered glass so it broke into thick little pieces instead of shards, and the bigger pieces stayed on the stove.  God did some serious protecting, because none of the glass seemed to hit me, even though I was about two feet away.

Between the explosion and my scream (described as being an "I'm about to die" scream), my neighbor rushed over to make sure I was okay and she helped me laugh it off enough to clean up the glass on the floor.  Needless to say, I finished making the macaroni in the microwave...

And that was just the glass on the stove...

Thank you for all of your prayers, I made it safely and with all of my luggage! I think this is going to be a wonderful place to live and I can't wait to start exploring the city!

Prayer requests: Pray that I'll be able to assimilate quickly to the new way of life in Asuncion.
Pray for my roommate's safe arrival and that we'll become friends quickly!